He was highly cultured and came of a family of minor nobility. Vincenzio Galilei, his father, was also a musician, with original views, as well as being something of a mathematician. Galileo was ...

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth, exactly 300 years apart on ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his ...